Five people aged between 18 and 24 were killed in an Israeli airstrike in Tubas in the West Bank, according to the Health Ministry in Ramallah. The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) on Wednesday said its air force "struck an armed terrorist cell" with a drone in the area of Tubas and that its forces were "conducting counterterrorism activity" there and in the area of Tamun in the northern part of the occupied West Bank.

As an Israeli offensive against Palestinian militant groups stretched to a 10th day, residents said many people were trapped in their homes out of fear.

UN Palestinian relief agency says employee was first to be killed in the territory in more than a decade, but Israeli military says he was a ‘terrorist’